“It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.”

A man’s age is something impressive, it sums up his life.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.

Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

If you come at four in the afternoon, I’ll begin to be happy by three.

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

Freedom is difficult things.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.